400 BMR Forage Sorghum for High-Quality Grazing and Silage
See how 400 BMR forage sorghum performs in our test plot. This brown midrib variety grows fast, builds biomass quickly, and delivers high-quality forage—learn why the male sterile trait keeps sugars in the stock instead of locked in grain, making it sweeter for livestock.
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0:00 This is a 400 BMR forage sorghum. It is a brown midrib so it is going to be higher.
0:06 Quality grazing still a true forage sorghum, so it's going to grow very.
0:09 Quickly accumulate a lot of biomass. This is a good choice for silage. This would
0:15 Be a good choice for late season grazing. Probably won't have as good a regrowth.
0:19 As what a sorghum sedan would but a lot of biomass high quality grazing and.
0:24 Forage in a fairly short period of time.
0:25 An additional quality enhancement trait.
0:29 That this product has is it's a male sterile, which means the pollen isn't any.
0:40 Other sorghum's like it is here in the plot this will not produce viable grain.
0:45 Now there's a misconception that all the value of a forage sorghum is in the
0:52 Grain that's actually not quite true.
0:55 Once these berries get so mature it
0:58 Forms a hard seed coat and a lot of the starch in that berry is unavailable to grazing livestock. So by not forming grain, all the sugars produced by photosynthesis remain in the stock instead of getting locked inside a hard indigestible seed coat, which makes the entire product sweeter and more palatable to grazing livestock, especially if you're stockpiling for winter grazing or as a silage type product for a job.